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The nude has also been used to make a powerful social or political statement. In other projects Wikimedia Commons. Berger J, in Jones, A ed. In Ways of Seeinghe argued that female nudes reflected and reinforced the prevailing power relationship between females portrayed in art and the predominantly male audience. Perhaps he was already acquainted with art outside the European tradition, even though this is not evident. How does this loaded phrase change the way you see a girl's defiant stance and head-on stare? Last accessed 25th March

Sex and Spectator in Modern Art.

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It is this regulation of women that is indicative in both art and society of the idea that women need the manipulating hand of man to attain some state of grace and it is this historical regulation that so many female artists subvert and critique in their work. A year later Laura Mulvey wrote " Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema " stating the concept of the male gazewhich asserts that all nudes are inherently voyeuristic. Academic art history tends to ignore the sexuality of the male nude, speaking instead of form and composition. Art historian and author, Frances Borzello says that contemporary artists are no longer interested in the ideals and traditions of the past, but confront the viewer with all the sexuality, discomfort and anxiety that the unclothed body may express, perhaps eliminating the distinction between the naked and the nude. In Ways of Seeinghe argued that female nudes reflected and reinforced the prevailing power relationship between females portrayed in art and the predominantly male audience.